Fake or Fortune? (3.79m/19.1%), Countryfile (5.82m/24.5%) and Inspector George Gently (4.33m/16.5%) aired on BBC One, while BBC Two screened China on Four Wheels (1.22m/4.7%) and Dragons' Den (1.75m/6.7%).

Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the 80s enthralled 1.69m (6.8%) between 9pm and 10.30pm, logging a further 286k (1.8%) on +1. Not a single programme topped a million viewers on Channel 5.